It's fun how everytime I learn about a new climate catastrophe I assume it's like crop failure and then it turns out it's "city wide sinkhole, to not do crop failure"
Yeah, considering tradeoffs is important. And this would be a problem even if climate change wasn't part of the picture; aquifer depletion is happening because capitalism is demanding production cycles faster than the capacity of natural resources (soil and water) to regenerate. We could easily stay within those cycles if we (say it with me, class) reduce wastage, overproduction, and animal agriculture, but that would mean lower profits
It's fun how everytime I learn about a new climate catastrophe I assume it's like crop failure and then it turns out it's "city wide sinkhole, to not do crop failure"
Yeah, considering tradeoffs is important. And this would be a problem even if climate change wasn't part of the picture; aquifer depletion is happening because capitalism is demanding production cycles faster than the capacity of natural resources (soil and water) to regenerate. We could easily stay within those cycles if we (say it with me, class) reduce wastage, overproduction, and animal agriculture, but that would mean lower profits